nobody doubted that the worst of reddit would take over after we left
Good. Let them drive away all other people and let it become a miserable site for miserable people
What if, and hear me out on this, you go and start posting a bunch of ai images of trump sucking Putin off. Just a thought.
I'd have to go back to spez's teat to do that. I'm no fooking kneeler
feel free to shit post starting tomorrow
It's funny because they're implying that the whole sub isn't just shitposts to begin with.
What?!? You don’t think a link to a youtube channel with a Roman bust as their avatar screeching about “muh collapse of western society” is a valuable contribution?!?
Hey, you don't see me complaining they stay there and don't migrate to Lemmy. I'm pretty fine with that.
so basically, "we mods are boycotting but we can't act like we actually agree with the other protests."
typical conservative contrarian bullshit as always.
I don't understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of "They're doing a thing so we'll do the opposite"? What exactly is the goal here?
That's pretty much been the entire conservative movement's MO for 30 years now.
undefined> “They’re doing a thing so we’ll do the opposite”
That's their gameplan most of the time.
For a brief period of time I was on a place on Reddit where new users could get help finding their way around the site.
Someone shows up there and says, "I'm not sure why I'm even on this libt++d communist site, nobody here will respect the way any good conservative American thinks."
I'm thinking, OK, snowflake, don't melt so hard from being a victim, but I responded with, "You might try /r/Conservative, and I can ask their moderators if they have any other suggestions."
I did so: I sent the moderators of /r/Conservative a message explaining what I was looking for and asking for any advice they might have for this new user. The response I got back was, "LOL, F+++ off."
Lovely, lovely people there.
(100% that good conservative American was on the libt++d communist site for the free porn.)
Yeah I tried a few good faith attempts there. People would post asking why there was "no evidence of x" or why "this has never happened" or why "liberals are too afraid to answer y". So I'd link a news article, or a summary of the argument they were asking about.
I think I ended up getting 6 different accounts banned before I gave up.
edit: Also kind of funny how often they'd brag about never banning anyone, while being one of the most ban-happy subs on the platform.
I had something similar happen to me in r/republican. Pre-Trump, it actually wasn't a bad subreddit. You could have relatively civil discussions in there. I often used it to see and ask how Republicans/Conservatives thought about various things. I always tried to be respectful, understanding that that the wasn't "my sub." I flaired myself with a 'D' or something so it'd be obvious that I wasn't hiding and trolling. Had some OK discussions in there the few times I'd dare to chime in.
But it changed once Trump started running. I once was having a civil discussion with a user, trying to understand their take, and ended up linking to an article from a large, mainstream publication, to show what I was talking about.
I was banned with no comment. When I politely asked mods what I did wrong and if I could be unbanned if I promised to not do whatever I did again, I got the message: "Don't link liberal sources." And it wasn't a liberal source! Just something not from Fox or wherever. From then on, I could lurk, but I could never comment.
And the mods got crazier. I'd see that they'd remove comments and ban anyone, even Republicans, who spoke out against Trump. At that point, there was no reason to go there anymore.
So a corporate douche CEO wants to screw over their own userbase in the name of money alone and they are 100% onboard with opposing the boycott/protest...
...but are perfectly fine harassing and threatening stock workers at Target over Pride Month displays, outright absurd-levels of "boycotting" because of a limited-edition can with Bud Light, and the whole Chick-Fil-A DEI hire?
This is exactly what happened to DIGG* and what's currently happening to twitter.
Conservatives get beaten down by the vast majority of users and get a chip on their shoulder. Then as the site starts to die and the users move elsewhere conservatives jump on the sinking ship and declare their the new captain. They start drilling holes in the sinking ship cause theres nkthing else to do, and eventually realize the echo chamber sucks and then move on to the other social networks that everyone else went to, and the process repeats.
I hope with federation that the cycle doesn't repeat but we'll see.
Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes.
Well, you don't need third party apps with good moderation tools if you just don't moderate anything. /s
R/Conservative does moderate. They ban anyone who even whispers anything slightly against their political views. Even if it's quoting Trump himself.
Is there a reason why they're doing this? Blackout's not even political. They just want to be contrarian to everything.
Not allowing unfettered corporate greed to ruin things is leftist propaganda!
Sort of. Despite being over a million subs for about a year now (maybe more or less, I forget), they try to push the narrative that they are complete Reddit outcasts and are treated unfavorably compared to other political subs. I wouldn't be surprised if they see this as their way of becoming the predominant political sub on the site now that Reddit is falling apart.
Oh my, if they were really brave they would un-ban all the supposed liberals that ever slightly ruffled their feathers.
I wonder, will it be actual shitposting or will it just be them dropping the mask and calling that shitposting
It’s gonna be this. You will see the most racist and hideous stuff. And when called out „muh free speech“.
Always needing to be the contrarian, no matter the subject or how it may hurt them as well.
so i did cave in and open https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/conservative/new and i promise you all, if this was an ironic subreddit, i would've pinned this to my browser.
it's just too goofy right now and they're all so proud, i cant help but love it.
i hope they continue to "conserve" reddit LOL. @bumblefumble said it best:
"Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes."
EDIT: replaced link with libreddit alternative
One would think that a platform killing third party apps and forcing consolidation of users into their app would set some alarms off in the minds of the "we freedom oorah come and take it" party. Unfortunately they don't even pretend to match the branding on the tin.
Conservative ego is so easy to make a plaything of. What a bunch of blind lemmings.
Oh nice, good to see r/conservative doing their absolute best to get people to avoid Reddit.
Typical conservatives. Everyone else is fighting for the greater good and they've opted to selfish children.
So… a bunch of hateful, ignorant jerks are going to be even more obnoxious than usual? And they think that’s a good thing?
If the blackouts aren’t enough to drive people away, this will. Congratulations, reddit! You’re getting the user base you deserve!
Yep, seeing /r/conservative at the top or /r/all was enough to convince me to just close Reddit completely.
The enshittification of reddit.
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